Hiya,
Well it has been a while since I wrote. I guess I haven't had too much to say or maybe I just thought It wouldn't be interesting. So my fad of the week is Top Secret Recipes by Todd Wilbur. Totally fabulous. I made Iowas Maid Rite sandwiches. Those sucked. The next day I made home made Horsey sauce for nick. Spot On. I also made Planet hollywoods chicken crunch with Mcdonalds Honey Mustard. Again PERFECT. I could drink that stuff. No more asking for extra and putting it somewhere and forgetting and then it is gross. Nope I can make it at home. I am so happy. Yesterday I made Barboca Burrito's from from chipotle grill. OMG it took 6 hours but they were SOOOO Good. Everything from the homemade pico de gallo, to the homemade adobo sauce and the cilantro rice. Yummo. I cleaned my kitchen and organized my food closet and wrote down the stuff we already have so during meal planning or shopping I don't wonder do we have that and buy more. LOL. This weekend wasn't so bad. I just loved yesterday with the kitchen cleaning, the burritos and the boys were so well behaved. It was like the perfect day. Oh and Jordan kept saying Mommy with purpose. It is the first time he did that. He didn't do it today though. But I was so happy.
People go to amazon.com and buy Top Secret Recipes Unlocked and Some of the others. If you love restaraunts and fast food...and you want to make it at home...buy it. Your kids will love it. It is cheaper than eating out.
Monday, March 8, 2010
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Is it Tuesday or Weds? Wait it is Tues...(well technically weds)
Hiya,
Okay so remember I said that I had a IEP conference this morning? I even reminded hubby last night. So I finally nod off this morning, and wake up at 8:09am. The meeting was at 8. I go downstairs and hubby is sleeping in the tub. So like a I open the door loudly and he SHRIEKS like a girl...and I say something loudly, tell him to call the school, and I go back to bed. I wake up a while later, and the SSI check is here. I write an email to Nick's teacher and apologize. She calls me a minute later and says the meeting is tomorrow. Yippee! These are the only things I have never missed.
I go to the bank and cash check, then off too walmart. I didn't even want to go because I didn't know what I wanted to buy and without a plan I get impulsive. But hubby wanted to go. We went and yes I bought stuff. I bought more picture frames that were .50, a roasting pan that was 6.00, some food including the ingredients to make Chili's Molten Lava Cake Clone found on www.topsecretrecipes.com It is one of the free recipes and only takes three ingredients! So I will make it tomorrow and let you know!
We got home then got ready to go Dylan's play. We dropped him off at 6:30 and the play starts at 7pm. A half hour is kinda hard to wait around with a 2 year old is hard, so we go to the dollar store. Boy did they have alot of things on clearance. I got two accent pillows, some diffusers and candle sets at 1.00 each and some other things. We get going, and try to find a parking spot. Usually I am so anal about being early or on time people get angry at me. The one time that I am not we are late, they started early and we missed Dylan's part. We compensated him by buying him a blizzard and letting him stay up a half hour later than his bed time. I will be getting a copy of the video. And he was part of the ensemble so I got to see him perform but I still was kinda mad that we missed his part and gave hubby dirty looks across the room (he had to stand in the back with the baby because there was only one seat left. Thank god we weren't the only people late though. We got some pictures. When we got home we shaved Nick's head because he asked us too. I feel really weird today.
Well I am off to sleep. I will write more tomorrow and it will be more interesting..perhaps.
Okay so remember I said that I had a IEP conference this morning? I even reminded hubby last night. So I finally nod off this morning, and wake up at 8:09am. The meeting was at 8. I go downstairs and hubby is sleeping in the tub. So like a I open the door loudly and he SHRIEKS like a girl...and I say something loudly, tell him to call the school, and I go back to bed. I wake up a while later, and the SSI check is here. I write an email to Nick's teacher and apologize. She calls me a minute later and says the meeting is tomorrow. Yippee! These are the only things I have never missed.
I go to the bank and cash check, then off too walmart. I didn't even want to go because I didn't know what I wanted to buy and without a plan I get impulsive. But hubby wanted to go. We went and yes I bought stuff. I bought more picture frames that were .50, a roasting pan that was 6.00, some food including the ingredients to make Chili's Molten Lava Cake Clone found on www.topsecretrecipes.com It is one of the free recipes and only takes three ingredients! So I will make it tomorrow and let you know!
We got home then got ready to go Dylan's play. We dropped him off at 6:30 and the play starts at 7pm. A half hour is kinda hard to wait around with a 2 year old is hard, so we go to the dollar store. Boy did they have alot of things on clearance. I got two accent pillows, some diffusers and candle sets at 1.00 each and some other things. We get going, and try to find a parking spot. Usually I am so anal about being early or on time people get angry at me. The one time that I am not we are late, they started early and we missed Dylan's part. We compensated him by buying him a blizzard and letting him stay up a half hour later than his bed time. I will be getting a copy of the video. And he was part of the ensemble so I got to see him perform but I still was kinda mad that we missed his part and gave hubby dirty looks across the room (he had to stand in the back with the baby because there was only one seat left. Thank god we weren't the only people late though. We got some pictures. When we got home we shaved Nick's head because he asked us too. I feel really weird today.
Well I am off to sleep. I will write more tomorrow and it will be more interesting..perhaps.
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
It's Monday...
My day today was a mix of good and bad. But I stayed calm and like blah about the bad...Not caring at the moment. Okay woke up to check the bank account (ugg) I hate checking accounts people. Anyhow we must have made a major miscalculation and I guess not looking for three weeks didn't help. Lets just say HALF of my check was taken by the bank. The other half was used for the electric bill which left us with 89.00! Minus 11.00 that we used last night at midnight. That is okay cuz I was expecting another check via mail. Me and son get SSI, anyhow. I go to the doctor. I think everything on the boob front is normal. I am still kind of confused and will wait for another letter. On the downside I was told that the cardiologist wants me back on heart medications to control my heart rate since it is high and I go for a stress test soon. What to do..I did retail therapy! I purchased 2 picture frames that were on sale for .50 cents each. Cutting mats sale for 3.00, measuring cups and spoons for 97 cents, biscuit cutters on sale for 1.00, a mandolin (the hand slicer thingy) and I could NOT find Julie and Julia so I settled for Top Secret Recipes Unlocked. People you MUST go to www.topsecretrecipes.com and look at the recipes. There are tons of free ones, but seriously go on amazon and buy the books. My copy of the first one burned in the fire so I am buying a new one. They have the clone for planet hollywoods chicken crunch. OMG is it good, and the bloomin onion dipping sauce and so much more.
We had a moment with the lovely Post office. We get home from the doc and guess what is NOT in my mailbox...NO MAIL. No footsteps in the snow. We check with the neighbors and they said mail dude was around at 1:30. Ugggg. He likes to skip us sometimes. Anyway I know better. But hubby decides to go to PO and ask them if they have it there. They said No without looking, and then when husband says something about mailman skipping us often the lady had the nerve to say...They are NOT required to stop wheather they have mail for you or not. WHAT? Okay I can see if there are major obstacles in the way. There were non that impeded him. We have No big or little dog.. this comment bothered me. Since my father worked for the postal system forever I know better. And when a number was demanded (she was the post master and the bitchyness was the reason for higher up number) she refused to give it, until david played the my father in law was blah blah blah...(high up position) and my brother (his fathers son) is a blah blah blah (we have no clue if he is anymore or not) Point being if you mention you have relatives in power or at least in the know...and there is a line of people behind you that can hear bitchiness and answers like they don't have to deliver your mail...well you get the card. However it was a 1800 number. Not the district number. Now I know how to get that. She could have just answered the one question without being so snotty, and throwing in that if they don't feel like it, they are not required to stop with arrogance and a smile. We didn't attack you and was not unkind in tone...she had no reason to respond like that. If people approach you kindly and patiently with a question give them the same. Hell when I worked at Arby's and people would attack me personally for errors the cook made, I would still be really really nice and calm and smiley. The only people at work I ever got surley with is the managers and co workers. What fricken morons. But customers loved me and I was always or most always able to turn a cranky ass into a semi satisfied person. Meaning they weren't cursing at me when I was done with them. People use to ask me to get a manager just to tell them that I should get a raise. Too bad manager didn't take their suggestion. Yes people I did work, I held many service jobs. I enjoyed them very much. At least the cashiering/customer service part. Hated the cleaning, stocking and dealing with cocky ass egotistical managers my age that were late for work, (hell even missed opening up the store one day because of hangover and I got a call at home from employees that had been waiting two hours and it was 5 minutes before opening time, I called district and talked to them and they sent someone to open the store and help fast track. People if Arby's opens at 8 am, people are there at 5 am starting the roasts. I know....I bet they were low on beef that day.) Shit I even had customers (different ones) regularly give me cash tips, which I wasn't suppose to keep but I did. This happened at White Castle, Arby's and Burger King. Okay list of jobs I held in order
White Castle, Burger King (2 months, and the only job I ever quit because I got another one) Sportsman's guide, Arby's, Rainbow, KFC for like a month got phased out because I worked at rainbow at the same time and was pregnant and extremely sick all the time) back to Arby's, Cub, Sportsman's Guide, TCF and one week at Walmart (got fired because my ears plugged up and I couldn't hear anything, Walmart sucks to work at) I believe that is it. And my last day at TCF which I consider the last job I had (don't count walmart), was September 18th 2001.
Contrary to popular opinion I loved working. It was painful at times because of the standing, I kinda got tired of employees treating me like a retard but I loved customers and I was good at my jobs. People got mad at me because I did everything by the book and did not care for short cuts. I knew the company handbooks and rules inside and out and I adheared to holding times which pissed some managers off. God forbid you need to make new potato cakes when a customer orders them, they have been up ten minutes past their hold time... Being so anal about rules and policy made me unpopular. But hey who do you think gets yelled at when you are served cold fries or stale chicken fingers? Not the fryer or the manager...But ME the cashier. So I did my job correctly and people got mad because that meant they had to do their job correctly. I have a perfectionist complex. If I can't do it the way it is suppose to be done I won't do it. And by suppose to be, I mean policy, rules, written, or the vision in my head (cleaning)... and then it gets overwhelming because I have this idea of how it is to be done and if it can't be done just like that I don't know how to re-think or re-organize my thoughts to do it in a way that would be just sufficient. I hate it. Guess who's spices always face the same way and are in order from smaller bottle to biggest and in catagories??? Yep mine.
I am off to Nick's school bright and early for an IEP meeting and then later on Dylan has his school play. I will blog about it all of coarse. Sorry I don't have much to say or anything funny to say. I'm kinda out of it today.
We had a moment with the lovely Post office. We get home from the doc and guess what is NOT in my mailbox...NO MAIL. No footsteps in the snow. We check with the neighbors and they said mail dude was around at 1:30. Ugggg. He likes to skip us sometimes. Anyway I know better. But hubby decides to go to PO and ask them if they have it there. They said No without looking, and then when husband says something about mailman skipping us often the lady had the nerve to say...They are NOT required to stop wheather they have mail for you or not. WHAT? Okay I can see if there are major obstacles in the way. There were non that impeded him. We have No big or little dog.. this comment bothered me. Since my father worked for the postal system forever I know better. And when a number was demanded (she was the post master and the bitchyness was the reason for higher up number) she refused to give it, until david played the my father in law was blah blah blah...(high up position) and my brother (his fathers son) is a blah blah blah (we have no clue if he is anymore or not) Point being if you mention you have relatives in power or at least in the know...and there is a line of people behind you that can hear bitchiness and answers like they don't have to deliver your mail...well you get the card. However it was a 1800 number. Not the district number. Now I know how to get that. She could have just answered the one question without being so snotty, and throwing in that if they don't feel like it, they are not required to stop with arrogance and a smile. We didn't attack you and was not unkind in tone...she had no reason to respond like that. If people approach you kindly and patiently with a question give them the same. Hell when I worked at Arby's and people would attack me personally for errors the cook made, I would still be really really nice and calm and smiley. The only people at work I ever got surley with is the managers and co workers. What fricken morons. But customers loved me and I was always or most always able to turn a cranky ass into a semi satisfied person. Meaning they weren't cursing at me when I was done with them. People use to ask me to get a manager just to tell them that I should get a raise. Too bad manager didn't take their suggestion. Yes people I did work, I held many service jobs. I enjoyed them very much. At least the cashiering/customer service part. Hated the cleaning, stocking and dealing with cocky ass egotistical managers my age that were late for work, (hell even missed opening up the store one day because of hangover and I got a call at home from employees that had been waiting two hours and it was 5 minutes before opening time, I called district and talked to them and they sent someone to open the store and help fast track. People if Arby's opens at 8 am, people are there at 5 am starting the roasts. I know....I bet they were low on beef that day.) Shit I even had customers (different ones) regularly give me cash tips, which I wasn't suppose to keep but I did. This happened at White Castle, Arby's and Burger King. Okay list of jobs I held in order
White Castle, Burger King (2 months, and the only job I ever quit because I got another one) Sportsman's guide, Arby's, Rainbow, KFC for like a month got phased out because I worked at rainbow at the same time and was pregnant and extremely sick all the time) back to Arby's, Cub, Sportsman's Guide, TCF and one week at Walmart (got fired because my ears plugged up and I couldn't hear anything, Walmart sucks to work at) I believe that is it. And my last day at TCF which I consider the last job I had (don't count walmart), was September 18th 2001.
Contrary to popular opinion I loved working. It was painful at times because of the standing, I kinda got tired of employees treating me like a retard but I loved customers and I was good at my jobs. People got mad at me because I did everything by the book and did not care for short cuts. I knew the company handbooks and rules inside and out and I adheared to holding times which pissed some managers off. God forbid you need to make new potato cakes when a customer orders them, they have been up ten minutes past their hold time... Being so anal about rules and policy made me unpopular. But hey who do you think gets yelled at when you are served cold fries or stale chicken fingers? Not the fryer or the manager...But ME the cashier. So I did my job correctly and people got mad because that meant they had to do their job correctly. I have a perfectionist complex. If I can't do it the way it is suppose to be done I won't do it. And by suppose to be, I mean policy, rules, written, or the vision in my head (cleaning)... and then it gets overwhelming because I have this idea of how it is to be done and if it can't be done just like that I don't know how to re-think or re-organize my thoughts to do it in a way that would be just sufficient. I hate it. Guess who's spices always face the same way and are in order from smaller bottle to biggest and in catagories??? Yep mine.
I am off to Nick's school bright and early for an IEP meeting and then later on Dylan has his school play. I will blog about it all of coarse. Sorry I don't have much to say or anything funny to say. I'm kinda out of it today.
Monday, March 1, 2010
Sunday Not so Funday
Hi all,
So today was a so-so day. I made Lemon Poppy seed bread with lemon glaze and lemon butter. For lunch cheese burgers and dinner chicken nuggets for the kiddies. Nick had a major three hour spaz attack. I told him to wait ten minutes to use the computer. Needless to say he didn't use the computer for the rest of the day and I think I am going to tell him I got it shut off and only use it while he is at school and asleep and hide the box the rest of the day. That way it avoids meltdowns such as that and fights with dylan. Sometimes when you have an autistic teen things aren't as simple as schedules and rules or waiting your turn. So it is either all or nothing. So he will have nothing for a while. It will be okay. I just can't do it anymore. All the fights about the internet and downloading. It is horrible and since he is getting more violent I really do have to avoid the triggers. If the police are called or anything like that there will be nothing we can do. He doesn't mean his threats. He also can't help when he gets into meltdown mode to stop it. It has to run it's coarse. No matter what reasoning you use it doesn't work. Also I am afraid that if these major meltdowns aren't avoided that I might end up hurting him. There is only so much I can be screamed at, threatened and such without being about ready to throw something. Don't fear. I stop myself. I go into the bathroom or where ever if I have too. It is just I hate thinking negatively about him and it hurts me to see him like that.
Anyhow. I decided to re-do the house, one room at a time, 50 dollars at a time. I think I'll start with the Kitchen. That way I can get my mandolin or food processor! I will blog about my purchases and such. When I do the Living room, the 50 at a time does not apply. I will use about 600 for new to me furniture, that will come out of my money I get in July. Also we will be getting new ball joints for the car and fund our vacation to Iowa or something. I haven't decided exactly...maybe big screen TV and a WII in leu of vacation? Any thoughts? Oh and definitely complete my Friends DVD collection I am trying to rebuild. Tomrrow I will stop by Amazon.com to purchase one. Should I start at 10 and go backwards? I have a hard time making decisions. I never use to be this way. Oh well.
Oh and I got two emails today from a lady who is writing a book about difficult pregnancies, loss and miracles. I submitted Jordan's story and she wants to use it. That is exciting for me. However somehow I think my life will end up being a Lifetime Special.... Any ideas who should play me? Since I was a teen I considered Candace Cameron-Buree (DJ on Full House).
Not much else to discuss except the R on my key board keeps sticking and it is ticking me off.
Tomorrow, Two doctor appts, a trip to Walmart and Amazon.com. Busy busy day
Tuesday is an IEP conference for Nick
TTYL
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